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You should be able to run it from a terminal just by typing gkrellm, then right-click on the top of the window, should bring up the configuration menu (or click onto the window to bring it to focus then hit F1) and you can add the temp. monitors and such from that menu. under Builtin > Sensors > temperature.

You should be able to run it from a terminal just by typing gkrellm, then right-click on the top of the window, should bring up the configuration menu (or click onto the window to bring it to focus then hit F1) and you can add the temp. monitors and such from that menu. under Builtin > Sensors > temperature.

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o@o-HP-Compaq-6910p-GH715AW-ABA:~$ gkrellm

Gkrellm opened
Builtin > Sensors > Temperature

I checked on some boxes so that it would monitor temperatures inside of my laptop. I don't think I had to exactly press the key F1, but however that it happened, I was able to find it.

Well, can you give any information as to what you are/were doing when the shutdowns happen, then?

It really sounds like a hardware issue if it just stops itself randomly. You checked the AC adaptor, battery, etc. right?
Maybe an issue with the motherboard or hdd, but normally that would just leave you with a system that shuts down or hangs when you try to do certain things, or that just wont boot in the first place, I think.

Also, I'm not sure you can rule out temp. entirely just yet - keep an eye on it when the next shutdown actually occurs.

Without being able to take it apart and poke around inside it I'm not sure what the issue is.

Well, can you give any information as to what you are/were doing when the shutdowns happen, then?

It really sounds like a hardware issue if it just stops itself randomly. You checked the AC adaptor, battery, etc. right?
Maybe an issue with the motherboard or hdd, but normally that would just leave you with a system that shuts down or hangs when you try to do certain things, or that just wont boot in the first place, I think.

Also, I'm not sure you can rule out temp. entirely just yet - keep an eye on it when the next shutdown actually occurs.

Without being able to take it apart and poke around inside it I'm not sure what the issue is.

The laptop crashed again around 60 seconds or so after I last checked laptop's temperature. It was at around 70C.

Laptop has crashed under different circumstances. It has crashed when I was doing nothing. It has crashed when I had Firefox opened.

It has crashed when I had a bunch of Firefox windows opened.

It has crashed when I had nothing opened, a few programs running, and when I had a bunch of programs running.

It could be a hardware issue.

I doubt that it is overheating.

Should I call my issue a crash ? Is that a good word to use ? That it just turns off all of a sudden ?

It is not turning off when I do certain things ? Because it really is pretty random.

My laptop routinely runs at 60°C to 64°C and peaks at 75°C+, so I don't think you are regularly hitting high temperatures.

(edit after your last post ... probably not a thermal shutdown) But it's potentially the cause of your shutdowns (which do sound very much like thermal shutdowns) - if the fans are not kicking in properly a heavy load could very quickly raise the temperature. You might want to try the cpuburn package (in the repositories), but I haven't used it much myself ... not for the faint-hearted. There are various other things which can put a high load on your CPU to test it ... try running tar on a large directory, perhaps.

I don't know if bad RAM could cause this but it would be a good idea to run memtest (from the GRUB screen after booting up) for a good while (hours).